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APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20. 1915.

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PEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1919.

Application filed August 20, 1915. Serial No. 46,412.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. WooD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ginnaminson, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pens, whereof the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates particularly to writing pins and is especially applicable to pens adapted to sign writing, letter making or to the drawing of broad or heavy lines.

The principal objects of my invention are to provide a pen capable of producing a broad line of uniform width, without danger of flooding; and to provide means whereby lines of diiferent widths may be drawn by merely changing the direction of movement of the pen with respect to the axis of the holder.

Other objects of my invention are to provide a pen having its nibs so formed as to produce a broad uniform line terminating in rounded or polygonal form.

My invention further includes means carried by the pen for holding writing fluid suspended in a capillary manner in such relation to the nibs of the pen as to be drawn thereby as required to produce a line of uniform width and density.

Specifically stated my invention comprehends a writing pen bifurcated longitudinally to form separate nibs whose free ends are so formed as to provide a flat ink dispensing spoon; and a finger having a clip adjustably and detachably carried by the pen and arranged to retain writing fluid suspended in such relation to the nibs of the pen to be fed thereto as required.

My invention also includes all of the various novel features of construction and arrangement of the cooperative parts as hereinafter more definitely specified.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a pen embodying a convenient form of my invention; Fig. 2 is a central vertical longitudinal sectional view of the pen shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view ofthe pen shown in Figs. 1 and 2 taken on the line 3-3 in each of said figures; Fig. 4 is a front elevational view of the pen shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 in upright position, with the ink suspending finger removed for convenience Fig. 4 showing a pen embodying a slight modification of the ink dispensing spoon; Fig. 6 is a view similar to Figs. 4 and 5, showing another modification of the ink dispensing spoon; Fig. 7 is a front elevation in upright of the ink suspending finger shown attached to the pen in Figs. 1, 2 and 3; Fig. 8 is a short line such as may be drawn by the pen shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive when progressed in a rectilineal path toward the right from the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. 9 is a short line such as may be drawn by the pen shown in Fig. 5 when similarly progressed, and Fig. 10 is a short line such as may be drawn by the pen shown in Fig. 6, when similarly progressed.

In said figures the pen comprising the substantially semi-cylindriform body 1 and the usual shank 2 for engagement with any suitable form of holder (not shown) and having the eye 3 forming the upper termination of the slit 4, which bifurcates the point to form the separate nibs 5 and 6 respectively which are extended obliquely outward are complementary to form the ink dispensing spoon 7 of such dimensions as will produce a line of the desired width.

As best shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the spoon 7 is disposed in such oblique relation to the axis of the body of the pen as to be parallel to and in flat engagement with the surface 8 to be scribed when said axis is disposed at an angle approximately 45 to the plane of the said surface.

The pen shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive has its nibs 5 and 6 formed rectangular with its major axis extended transversely so that when the pen is progressed in the verticalplane of its axis it will produce a line of greater breadth than when progressed in a transverse path, so that as will be readily seen in the formation of letters of the Roman scrip the vertical bars may be made broad, while the horizontal or transverse bars may be relatively narrow and in letters such as B and D the narrow horizontal bars may gradually broaden to merge into the broad vertical bars, by maintaining the axis of the pen toward the operator.

In the form of pen shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive wherein the spoon 7 is rectangular the line produced will have square ends as shown in Fig. 8.

In the form of my invention shown in Fig. 5 the nibs are turned obliquely outward to form the spoon 9 whose forward and lateral edges are straight and at right angles is straight, and whose lateral edges 14 and 15 curvedly merge into the rear edge at angle of said spoon and nibs.

In this form of pen the spoon 12 is of 'such shape that the line produced as represented in Fig. 10, will have the initial end square and the terminal rounded.

It will be noted that a pen having an ink dispensing spoon of the extent shown will require a suitable font for supplying the fluid to said spoon and for this purpose, I have provided a finger 16, for suspending said fluid, which as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 8, and 7 is provided with spring clips or wings 17 adapted to embrace th pen body 1, adjacent to its uncture with its shank 2, and hold said finger 16 in oblique relation to the outsi'desurface of the body and across the e'ye"3.

Th'e'finger 16 is broadened at its medial region 19 and has a tongue 20struck out therefrom and arranged to extend into the eye'3-as bestshowu in Fig. 2, while the free end of said finger terminates'in'a rounded point 21 which rests upon the nibs at their angular connection with the spoon. The tongue 20 aids in suspending the fluid as it traps to a certain extent a portion of the fluid at the upper end of the finger 16, permitting the fluid, however, to run down to the lower end of the finger as it is used. 7

It will be obvious that pens having spoons of other shapesand forms than those herein shown and described may be readily employed, and therefore I do not desire to limit my invention to the precise details of construction and arrangement herein set forth as it is obvious that various other modifications may be made therein without departing from theessential features of my invention asvdefined in the appended claim. Having thus described my invention, 1 claim The 'combinationwith a pen providedat the free ends of its nibs with broad, flat,

obliquely projecting extensions, and having an eye at theupper end of said nibs, of a finger provided at its upper end with side clips ngaging the pen and formed between its ends with a lug projecting into said *eye, the said finger extending along the upper side of the pen downwardly and inwardly to the junction of the nibs and oblique eX- tensions. p 7

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand in "the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

EDWARD S. WOOD.

' Witnesses: R. A. Wmsrnniz,

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